CHAPTER 4
BPOV
MELODY'S HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I woke up that morning, knowing full well she wouldn't be in my kitchen or living room like she were a Special Day breakfast or a Christmas present, but I felt like it was both of those things. I LOVE Mel, so much so that people believe we're honestly siblings, and she was coming up all the way from Des Moines to see us. By "us" I mean Glandyator and myself. Mel and her sister, who we nicknamed "Cherish" because well, all the guys in our group have all at one time or another tried to date her, are staying at Glandy's house. No offense to me, Glandy lived in town closer to all the things we'd be doing over our nice long weekend, and his mom and the Mel's are good friends, so it made "Mama G" (Mel's last name is Gunderson) a little more comfortable to know her babies were in great hands. But no matter, we were all gonna hang out all weekend!! A good race and a party in the next town over, an all nighter of Lord of the Rings and Axis and Allies (yeah, the girls even play), and good ol' fashioned fireworks out in the country, and probably a hike, but mostly I was looking forward to just chatting with the two girls, something about just chatting brought us close. Plus I loved having someone to protect, even though Mel was the last girl who needed it; she could take care of herself. But I couldn't help but be giddy, I was gonna get to hug my sister again, and this weekend would be great! I did feel bad about one thing, Nena wasn't here this weekend and it was hard for her to understand why I was so giddy about two girls coming to see me; I just hope she'll understand.
Even Andy seemed healthy, well, as healthy as he gets, in time for our sisters to come. Mel and Glandy were the only two people I knew that loved cars as much as I do, and this weekend's race would be fun. Jose was letting me run the SS for at least one, and if I won him some money he'd let me race it again, and I knew Mel would be a good luck charm for me, and I had gotten the hang of the quick clutch on the beast and was always good at green light starts. Plus it was gonna be a half mile race, a quarter mile down, a big U-turn that I could drift most of the way around, and then back to the line. And with that big ass engine and a couple tanks of Nos in her, I could either just straight overpower the other runners or beat em on the turn. I was really good at drifts in that big bruiser, she was heavy enough to take my hard turn without slipping even one bit. I don't know why, but I don't trust my school buddies with this, and I know I'd get in trouble if Mom and Dad figured it out. Glandy won't tell though, he gets this, he gets why I need it, and Mel would love it, Cherish... tolerate it, and Jose is frickin sponsoring it; so in this group I'm good. This is my complete open, honest, but secretly b.a. group.
The school dudes are closer in some regards though, like Josh and Chase I can tell anything to, and we're on the same page with school and classes, and our church life, they know Nena well, and we get each other's stupid antics. Those are things this group doesn't get as well. If I suggested watching Beastmaster or the 13th Warrior to Ninyo and I'd get tossed out of his house until I was ready to man up and watch 8 Mile or Gone in Sixty Seconds. But saying that to Josh or Chase would mean that's what we were gonna do. We'd laugh at it, grab a couple Mt Dew's or Rootbeers outta my fridge, put in a Papa Murphy's and some mozzarella sticks, and play a couple games of pool while we talk about the similarities to the movies and our lives. Like how Tristan in the movie King Arthur reminds me of Chase and his love of being sneaky, or Lancelot reminds me of the loyalty that Josh and I have between us. Or I'd laugh at how Troy could make any evil, stupid, or skanky movie girl remind me of someone from school.
Nena got my silliness too, but she also had my heartstrings in ways I can't even describe. She got the fact that I like storybook romances; ya know, those movie magic moments where they just look at each other and know that there was love there, and then they'd kiss in time for the end credits. No, we'd not said "the word" yet, but we had kissed, in fact we did that on our first date, and I already knew we were gonna be dating for a long time. She's the only girl I've ever even asked out, and the only girl I've dated, or kissed. I asked her out at the homecoming game by singing "Hey Baby" with the pep band and staring at her; she said yes before the song was even over. The next night was the dance and I got my very first kiss two steps away from the second pillar in my high school cafeteria during some slow song, and it was a french kiss. I was flyin high the rest of the night, like I was freakin homecoming king and the biggest untouchable mobster of all time. The kinda guy who's got an entourage around him, and it was all from one silly, beautiful girl and her kiss.
Stop daydreaming Barny! You gotta get outta bed and get ready for school, and then see your sisters!
GPOV
THEY'RE HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't believe it, Mel and Nicole were here!! I just barely get into my kitchen and mom's makin Nicole some coffee, they just had a long drive afterall. Mel leaped out of her seat and hugs me so hard I about fall over backwards, but why would I mind? This cute sister of mine loved me, she missed me, and I couldn't wait to catch up and enjoy this weekend. Plus Nicole takes wicked good pictures, and those must capture our first weekend together in about 5 months. They're even gonna hang out for some of school today, and then I'm gonna skip once health starts. Well, not really skip, my teachers know all about it and it's excused, but if I would have forgotten to do that I would have taken the time to skip anyway.
I was even goin to my first race tonight. I loved watching a good race in the movies, and I figure watching Barnabas win one would be even more fun. Someone I know winning it all, and I'm pretty sure he will, and then we'll all be happy and high on that feeling when we go watch some LOTR and hang out at my place. Everyone will just be excited and happy, no one will be sick, and it'll be fantastic. As long as I take my meds and take a nap this afternoon (yeah, lame, I know) I will have enough health in me to make it through the marathon of films and the race before I hit the hay for the night.
I didn't tell Mel or Cherish but I'm giving my speech today. I love speech class, and this speech was on a personal story, and it was about the first time I first rode a rollercoaster. Mel was there, and I thought she'd enjoy the fact she was in my speech while she had to sit through this class with me. I was never nervous in front of people, but usually I had to talk about AIDS awareness when I was centerstage, so getting to talk about normal kid things was a nice break when I had the spotlight. Plus, this class was an easy A. I grin about this little surprise I had for Mel today and ask Cherish for the syrup. Mom made chocolate chip waffles, the favorite of all four of the kids in the house.
"Wassup girls!?" O, Torrin. My lil bro is so adorab.... why the crap aren't you wearing a shirt you moron? Ha, he has no sense of decorrum, especially around girls.
"Hey Tor! Missed you, and you're gettin handsome" Mel nudged my foot under the table, letting me know that, while she can see he needs a lesson in chivalry, she remembers that he's only 12 and has that excuse at least.
Mom pipes in at this point, not so much with words as a nod to the bathroom to let Torrin know he needs to shower and put on real clothes and get ready for school.
I do too though, and once I put my plate in the washer I grab my backpack and grab a spot in the backseat by Mel, and Nicole puts on my favorite CD as we go find a spot next to wear Barny always parks.
JPOV
Just what I need, more white people to hang out with, and this time they're chicks from "I'm-a-fucking-princess-skank" Iowa. Nah, I'm just playin, they seem cool, and Glandy made it clear that I can't skip math today, cuz that's my only class with him and he'll be plannin the weekend with me. It's hilarious to me, this is the kid's rebel weekend, the time he gets to stay out a little later and drink Mt. Dew after 10:30, but for me it'll be a tone down and relaxation of my normal weekend activity. The race will be fun but other than that nothin too wild. No smokin, drinkin, or makin out in front of these ones.
Not that the last one would be somethin I'd try to pull right now, Tina is gonna have my baby in a couple months, and she's showing. I was glad enough she wasn't gonna have an abortion, plus i'm not that big of a dick I'd go out with another girl while she was goin through all the pregnant stuff, even if she was a bitch. And in a weird way the kid was all I could think about. I was gonna be a damn good dad, I was gonna be sure of that. And it wasn't because it was my job, or cuz my dad wasn't around for me; I wanted to be a good dad cuz that's what dad's are supposed to want. And I already loved the kid, got two names already: Michael and Elizabeta. Somehow already knowing the name makes my hopes and prayers more real to me. having more reason to live and to know what my next move should be.
For now my next move will be having a fun relaxing weekend with the good kids, a nice change from Tek and Cashus and coke.
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